27 Nov 1900
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Newspaper
Asbury Park Journal
Location
Asbury Park, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1900
Page
1
The notice promotes low prices at J. J. Parker Co Main Street with Noble's Best and Star Flours and assorted canned goods and teas. It highlights flour prices per barrel and sack, canned peaches and cherries, mackerel, prunes, peppers, ketchup, corn starch, buckwheat, syrup, soap, pears, pineapple, and coffee blends like Modha and Corona.
Special notice states Mr. J. J. Parker has no connection with any other store while the Cookman Avenue Grocery Palace is erected and his attention will be devoted to the sole establishment.
The notice touts Our Guarantee and claims the best goods for the least money and prices the lowest with everything warranted to be as represented or money refunded.
Big money in boarding house business with a 45 room property in Asbury Park. Priced with $3,000 down and $8,000 mortgage at a fixed rate, plus second mortgage at 6 percent. Potential net income over $700 with annual fixed costs around $848. Sold by Twining & VanSantz Rooms 12-13 Monmouth Building Mattison Ave and Bond St Asbury Park NJ.
The Perth Amboy Mutual Loan, Homestead and Building Association faced exposure linked to George M. Valentine, former Middlesex County Bank cashier. Expert auditor George Forman found misused bonds, unlawfully pledged shares, and a solvency shortfall. The association plans to continue operations despite insolvency findings and ongoing litigation.
The Symphonion Manufacturing Company restarts its Bradley Beach mill hiring new workers after advertising on Sunday and Monday. Strikers have not returned and are unlikely to seek reinstatement. The company guarantees protection for new employees and seeks male and female applicants.
The state will soon seek certiorari in the Supreme Court to test the order quo ringing down the indictments of Rev. Dr. Henry M. Wharton. Judge Horaley previously held there was insufficient evidence to press the bills in the matter involving funds from an orphanage property in West Grove.
Neptune Company plans a fair opening next Monday night at the engine house Thorn with six booths offering fancy articles art literature and music. The third floor will feature decorations ice cream and refreshments as part of the event. The group hopes to raise 1000 for new equipment and to sustain the unit’s efficiency.
Customers get handsome and durable Christmas presents free when using cash cards. Advertisement by The Steinsacu Company and Surprise Clothing Co at 614 Cookman Avenue. Read our ad on Thursday and Friday.
A large petition drive in Asbury Park urged the Central Railroad of New Jersey to extend the theater train. About a thousand signatures from business leaders clerks and patrons were gathered to show public support. Petitions will be sent by express to H P Baldwin with a council resolution expected tonight.
In Allephurst Carrie DeGroot Hyatt filed notices challenging assessments for Florence I Benjamin Edwin H Benjamin Edna Benjamin Atlantic Coast Electric Railway Company Consolidated Gas Company Mies Elizabeth R Kirk and Grenelle Schenck The board adjourned after deducting 1900 in city assessments and 800 in township reductions while Hyatt did not appear.
Census Bureau reports New Jersey boroughs with populations over two thousand. Notable figures include Princeton 8800 Rutherford 4411 South Amboy 6849 Washington 8580 North Plainfield 5009 Vineland 4870 Madison 3754 Garfield 3504 and others such as Bound Brook Carlstadt East Newark Hawthorne Maddison Port Oram and South River.
An Ocean Grove and township boards of health joint session failed to convene last night as township representatives did not attend. The agenda hoped to address improvements around Wealey Lake and related public health concerns.
Sheriffs notice postpones sale of H C Marryott dwelling on West Summerfield avenue to tomorrow at 2 in Park Hall. Adv B Herbert and others advertise dental services and banking offices with office hours. M L Ferris offers White sewing machines cash or easy payment plans at Central Hall building.
Henry Seighortner of Deal reached his majority yesterday. A. L. Seighortner hosted a Dutch supper for fourteen friends with numbered unpronounceable dishes on the wall. Henry received gifts including a gold watch and diamond-studded locket.
An engine hit a freight caboose on the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge over the Delaware at Trenton killing Frederick A. McDowell. An express bound for New York struck the wrecked caboose, shaking passengers but causing no further injuries. A Central Railroad passenger train hitting an open switch near Perth Amboy wrecked freight cars. fireman and engineer uninjured and 150 passengers unharmed besides a shaken state.
The West Grove Methodist Church fair runs at the Washington White Building with booths selling fancy articles and refreshments. Advertisements invite attendance and note piano mandolin teacher Mike Cora Sherman at 711 Summerfield Avenue, Abury Park, plus a Red Men’s Masquerade Ball at Winkler’s Hall next Tuesday evening.
The joint Monmouth and Ocean County teachers institute continued with talks on retirement fund details and membership, plus lectures on educational value and future programs. W J Morrison led discussions on 20 year service and disability benefits, and Edward H Griggs spoke on Belf-Culture Through the Vocation with a concert and reception enriching the event.
Rev. Howard T. Widdemer, former pastor of the First Congregational Church of Asbury Park, is seriously ill in Philadelphia after months of heart failure. He recently resigned as editor of a Newark literary magazine and moved to Philadelphia.
Life saving crew from Station No. 8 near Spring Lake watched a schooner struggle three quarters of a mile offshore amid heavy seas. Signals of distress were seen but a carf boat could not be launched. Merrit Chapman Wrecking Company sent a tug, which hauled the schooner off the bar at ten o clock this morning. crew details and destination were not released.
The First Congregational and First Methodist churches hold a joint Thanksgiving service at the First Methodist Church at 1080 o'clock. Rev. Dr. Dwight E. Marvin of the Congregational church will preach. A love feast is set for Wednesday evening at 7.80 o'clock in the Methodist church.
An ad urges young men to visit the Steinpach Company flaberdashery department for modish essentials. It promises fashionable attire and notes Journal readership offers fresh local news with home delivery six cents a week.
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